I have been working at Columbia University full-time (more than 8 years)

Pros

at the LDEO campus, lots of extra activities, yoga, basketball, soccer, volleyball. Since its through Columbia University you have access to classes, training, sobaticals, almost a month's worth of time off in a year. Flexible Hours, each position varies in the liberties but it is a very good company to work for.

Cons

Pay is not what you would get elsewhere(such as Finance industry), but for a University it is very good.

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promote from within more, they do pretty good at trying to place people in jobs, but not always promoting from within.

NYC housing wildly expensive. For families, NYC public education is horrible, or horrible to navigate to get to the good stuff. Private education is wildly expensive. Commuting from outside NYC eats up a large proportion of your life.